Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead Quotes

“I click on the last article. “COULD THIS BE THE NEXT COVID?” I get excited at the possibility of another lockdown, of plans canceled, of antisocial behavior as altruism, of government-sanctioned loneliness that would make the entire world as cripplingly sad as I am. What can I say? Misery loves eight billion people’s company.”
― Mai Nguyễn, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“Sometimes we break our own hearts more fiercely than anybody else.”
― Mai Nguyễn, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“passive suicidal ideation.”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“Life is an endless seesaw of things being terrible and things being wonderful.”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“Sometimes we wait until it’s too late to appreciate what a remarkable thing it is to be born.”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“encoding (the learning of information), consolidation (the process of storing), and recall (the ability to access that information when needed).”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“I don’t believe in getting over it. I believe in weathering it badly, in nursing the grudge,”
― Mai Nguyen, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“..tell her everything is perfect, even though everything is terrible”
― Mai Nguyễn, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

“Compassion. They all become more compassionate versions of themselves, whether they realize it or not. Everybody thinks grief makes you a monster, but it's my belief that grief makes you more human. It can be, in a way, a sort of gift.”
― Mai Nguyễn, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead